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The Huron Expositor, 1939-10-20, Page 23i II . !qr !ti en its ii yl tik 71 ip 1 ` rr• s � n Expositor Y r'f'kv Wished 1860 McPhail McLean, Editor i ed at Seaforth, Ontario, eve nrsday afternoon by McLean :t h„Saription rates, $1.50 a year in ^anee; foreign, $2.00 a year. Singly lies, 4 cents each. Advertising rates on application. EAFORTH, Friday, October 20th The War News Over the week -end news from the Seat of war has not contained much of comfort from the British Empire standpoint The sinking of three German sub- marines within twenty-four hours was, of course, heartening news, but was too swiftly followed by the Ad- miralty news that the first class British battleship, Royal Oak, had been attacked anti sunk by a Ger- man sub, which had no heartening effect at all. There is no sense in trying to. hide the seriousness of this second major loss sustained by the British fleet, but at the same time it is well to re- =member that it was not in any man- ner a vital blow, or anything even approaching one. In fact, as far as the effectiveness of the British navy, as a fighting force is concerned, the loss of the Royal Oak will be scarcely felt, nor would the loss of several more capi- tal ships alter the situation in any way. And it is well to remember that, too. Wherein the Allied cause suffers most is not in the loss of ships, but in the loss of the men who went down in those ships. In the case of the Royal Oak that loss reached almost the proportions of a land battalion of soldiers, and all were trained men. Those are things, however, which we must be prepared for. They are not nice to contemplate, :but --they have already happened twice in this war, and there is a possibility they will happen again before the war is over. But there is another and a happier side to look upon. To date the ,.loss sustained through enemy submar- ines is almost nil compared to the losses sustained through . the same cause in the last war. Running down submarines is a slow, tedious pro- cess, but to date the British navy has been eminently successful in that work. To -day there is not, as Tar as is known, a German raider on any of the seven seas. Those seas have been swept clean of German shipping, while British shipping is going and coining at will. The British navy has the upper hand, and there is no man- ner of doubt but that it will retain that upper hand right to the end. So remember that things are not as bad as they might be, or have been before. • The Week -End Casualty List It is not from the war that we are getting our casualty lists. Nor, ap- parently, is it necessary to have a ?war to ensure . such lists. Over the week -end seventeen Iives were lost in Ontario alone. All from accidents of one kind and another, and ' the greater part of them from accidents that were preventable. Nine of these deaths were caused by motor accidents, the most com- mon cause of all fatalities, particu- larly over our Ontario week -ends. It does not seem to matter how good roads are, or how good the weather is. In fact, ,most of these fatal accidents of aur on our best paled and patrolled roads. And un- thd very best weather conditions. And what can we do about it? Not a thing. Not at least Until every raver of a motor car; every rider of ;bieycd'eo and every pedestrian on the Iii g 'c ays gets it firmly fixed in her that death is no re - r ;;c persons, -and it is not al- b 'td be the other fellow t j%e Suddenly called, ydra;Ik with forefront •I f �1Tj EXPOSITOR • Mr. Lindbergh The world at large, and Canada in particular, is hearing again a great deal about Mr. Lindbergh, the first Iran to make a solo flight from the United States to Europe, but not of course, the first man to fly the At- lantic. And what Canada is hearing about Mr. Lindbergh, or, rather from him receltly, is not at all to Canada's liking, nor to his credit either. It is not s'o long ago as to be easily forgotten that when Mr. Lindbergh cots d not shake the publicity and gain the peace he claimed so much to desire in his own land, he moved himself and his family over to Eng- land, where there was both freedom and liberty to live as he pleased, without any outsider interference. But, apparently, Mr. Lindbergh has forgotten that kindly peace and hospitality afforded him by the Bri- tish people and British Iaws. At any rate, he has now not a single good word to say for Britain and ' less for Canada, which forms a part of the British Empire. But, perhaps, we should not take Mr. Lindbergh and his sayings too much to heart. Perhaps since the years of his solo flight his ego has developed to a much greater extent than his mentality, and perhaps his horror of publicity is not as great as we were led to . believe, and he just wants to be in the limelight again. Whatever it is, we should remem- ber that Mr. Lindbergh is not only the proud possessor of a decoration conferred on him by Mr. Hitler, but of a name that smacks something of that nature. And remembering, let it go at that. • The Boob In China We in enlightened Ontario are prone to look upon. China as a heathen country, and a poor, war- torn one at that. And war torn China certainly is, but ,as to the heathen state of her people a recent report of the British and Foreign Bible Society -and the American Bible Society would seem to create a grave doubt. At any rate it would appear by this report that the Chinese people cherish the Book—the book of all books, the Bible—equally as much as we, in enlightened Ontario, or any other Christian country, if the sale of that book is any indication, and sales usually are. And some of these .sales run into remarkable figures and show re- markable increases. In 1938 the re- tail sales were eighty-seven and a half per cent, higher than in 1937, and eighty per cent. higher than in any of the three preceding years.' During the first six months of the present year the cash sales at Shanghai have been greater than the entire twelve months of the preced- ing year, and three times as great as the first six months of 1938. Similar advances in sales are reg- istered throughout almost the whole of China, except where war condi- tions have interrupted mails and transportation. At Tsina,n ten .thousand and ten Bibles and Testaments were sold in the first six months of this year as compared with a total of seven thou- sand for the whole of the preceding year. At Peiping fifteen thousand, seven hundred and eight books were sold during the first half of this year compared with twenty-one thousand for the whole of 1938, and so the story goes over the whole country. And that is not too bad for China, is it? • One Way Of Putting It The intentions of Mr. Hitler and Mr. Stalin have been very nicely and concisely put by Hon. Winston Churchill, who said: 'Instead of two powerful and, to certain types of mind, captivating- philosophies, ' we have a couple of sets of rival gangsters joining forces in a jam, pooling their luck and trying to shoat their way out with any loot they can early through the ('-Hien of Ciixatiori. ;t> interestInn item* Picked Fro= The Huron Expositor of Fifty and Twenty -Rye Years Apo. From The Huron Expositor October 30; 1914 Mr. James Jarrett; near Kippen, while attending a 'sick horse, receiv- ed a kick from the amoral which broke his Ieg. Miss Evetan.' McCartney, of Gode- rich, and Mr. Cliffond Hunt, Seatt rtsh, students at the Canton: School of Coerce, have 'been awarded certi- cates for proficiency in typewriting. Mr. aahn McDonald, of Walton, is tbavigg a new dry kiln erected at his mill, which will give Brim additional facilities for his extensive business. Miss Bessie McDonald, teacher of Walton school, met with an unfortun- ate and .painful accident while beach nutting in Sholdice's bush. She fell from a tree, breaking one of Her armsand bruising her skull. On Thanksgiving eventing, October l2th, Leadbury scimol drat class and some others, assembled at the ,home of Thomas Archibald. The principal event of the evening was the pnesen- tatfbn of a .handsonike clock to their teacher, Miss, K. E. Brown, Miss Ethel Reid read the address, and, Miss Jean Archibald made the presenta- tion. Miss B. Marson, of Seaftarth, assist- ed tbe choir in the Presbyterian, Church on Sunday evening and ren- dered a vocal solo, whdcfh was much appreciated The Mitchell, Woollen Company a month ago received an order for 500 pairs of underwear for the arme and; now have closed contracts for 2,300 blankets. The firm expects further orders. Saturday last was delivery day in this section for the Farmers' contri- bution to the Belgian Reliefe fund, which ie being carried out by the county council. From, eanly morning until 'late afternoon the station yard was crowded with rigs. The packing was done by Reeve J. A. Stewart and Mr. George T. Turnbull, and were supported by an army of volunteer workers. The following is the state- ment of what two rears contained: 236 barreis of potatoes, 173 barrels of apples, 179 sacks of oats and 2 bags of dried apples; also 22 barrels and 14 bags of apples sent to Clinton to be •shipped from there. There was a fall of snow in Hen - sell on Monday of considerably over six inches. It quickly disappeared, however. The contributions, to the Belgian Re- lief fund sent from Wroxeter station consisted of 149 sacks of oats, 1 bag flour, 1 bag dried apples, 33 barrels of apples and 102 bags of potatoes. William Little, linesman for Bras- s:, le Rural Telephone Co., fell 25 feet from the top of a pole. No bones were broken, but the was very badly shaken, up_ On Friday last Mr. William Peas, of Hullett, had a narrow escape from a very severe accident. He was go- ing to Clinton with a load of apples and ink stepping out of the wagon his trouser leg caught on a projecting board, . •throw rntg him to the 'hard road. No bones were broken. • From The Huron Expositor October 25, 1889 Mr. A. M. Radcliffe left Seaforth on Wednesday for Cleveland, where he has seemed a good position with a live stock insurance company_ The Seal -oath Methodist and Pres- beterian Sabbath schools are repres- ented at the Ontario Sabbath School convention being held in Toronto this week by 'tiiie foiowing delegates: Mrs. W, M. Gray, Mrs. Coulter and Misses Dickson, Robb, Tufford, M. E. McLean, S. B. McLean and Mr. John A. Wd1hon. ce Mr. S. Barton has the contract of making an iron fence to be erected in front of tete residence of Mr. Robt. Willis. Mr. Robert Beatty, of Brucefieid. popular rating telegraph operator, left om'Wednes ay for Port Artdiur, where he has secured a .lucrative position as station operator on the C.P.R. Mr, H. Eaaber, of Crediton, manager of the Hay Insurance Compapy, was at Ddxanls Hotel, Brncefieltd, ou busi- case. . Mise Maffie Hamilton, of McKillop, 'bas been secured as organist in the Episcopalian Church and is giving good satisfaction. While a lad by the name of Snell, of Exeter, was attending a horse and on going behind it, the animal kicked him on the forehead, making an ugly gash, which requites to have stitches put into it. Mo. J. R. Murray, video for the past fourteen years has had" the manage- ment of the Cheese factory in Kin - burnt, has decided) not to re-engage for next ,season, Ma George Steplre son, of Kinburn, has almost complete,g; erection of a new bank barn, • Mrs Joseph Martin, of Kiaeburn, has had erected In her family burying ground in the Kiniburn cemetery, a handsome monument in memory of her husband. ' Two large belles are shortly tobe hang up in the German: Church west of Bornholm, in Logan The Literary and Debating Society of Sohool Section No. 2, Grey, has been reorganized and the first debate came off on Wednesday evening last. Mr. A_ McKay Occupied tire chair. The subject, was, "Resolved that capi- tal punishment should be abolished." On the affirmative were Wm,. Wat- son, leader, assisted by Jas, Harris, Jas, Perr•ie and Chase. Sellers. On Mao fnegative, John Rubinson, leader, ,assisted by H. Fowler, Thos. Turn- bull and, A. Perrie. The deckle* was given in favor of the affirmative, Mr. uttrut'hers, df Clinton, now teething at Porters 11111, hag been engaged to teach next year at Grand Bend at a stab of $450. Ida C. E. Masoa, of Brucefie d, ]las, void to Meseta, itfnvfn, Ca Hooper, 1Ytfohiigaa, the Imported horse, "Doug-. Lis Gerald.,"' for S1,500.00. • r Phil Osifear of • • Lazy Meadows �• (By Harry J. Boyle) • "THAT PIPE" Along about this time of Near when the wood box has to be filled and kindling mtadfe .Heady for the monntng, and there's apples piled high in box- es on the verandah, and the garden staff is practically all In, the question, of my pipe occupies, a prominent pos- ition in ,tire household chatter here at Lazy Meadows - During 'the summer :months when the doors are open, and there's plenty of fresh ,air cawing in, through the shouse, the aroma of my pipe is not in such disfavor. Theon too, I naturally adtiourn to the back woodslhed for a smoke after meals. Mee. Phil care- fully closes the door opening into the woodshed. But now that the closed door days of winter ane approaching, Mrs. Phil begins a careful campaign about my pipe. At first there are gentle hints about the smell of "that pipe." Fail- ing to receive any response to that, she mentions the fine assortment of pipes they ' have in the mail-order catalogue for a mere twenty-five cents. Wouldn't I like one in my favorite "bull dog" ,sthape? Still ::o response. "Phil, I wisth you would stop smok- ing hay in tthat old pipe," is the next ,comment. When I indignantly reply that I am smfoking a good brand) of tobacco, she "hmmphs" and suggests that it's probably "that pipe." She abutters in dire sotto voice that the tobacco would probably taste and • s,m•ell better in a ,decent pipe. The next move in Ther plan includes forbidding me to smoke it when com- pany is present. After a good meal II will anetinctively reach for the win- dow sill and pickup the pipe, and as I'm lighting up Mos. Phil will ask the 'company in her ,chilliest tones, "Don't you find it stuffy in here?" Invariab- ly the company will reply tfhat they think it's just cozy, and they'll even, in some cases, if it's a gushing wo- man visitor, remark how pleasant it is to see a man smoking a -pipe in place of horrid cigarettes. Then comes the period of threats. She's going to boil my pipe to make it clasp. If it's on the window sill she avoids it by about six feet. In the most descriptive adjectives she, fore-' tells what it will be lime in the house during the winter Months, Great black clouds, of emolre that would smother an army will be billowing round the small confines, of the house, blacken- ing up - the ,walls and curtains and making the mere, fact of living a tor- tueeta If I continue to use that pipe in the wintertime we'll have to im- port gas masks such as they have in England, At Wet I compromise and buy a new pipe, but the old one is carefully secreted in a hiding 'place, where I can secure it at a moment's notice. My new pipes- have a very short per- iod of life. Something always seems to ,happen to them. I drop them or lean on them' . . . and they break. Some psychologist should look in- to the matter of a man and bis pipe. After caretutly breaking it in and get- ting it to a mellow point, he is al- ways reluctant to give it up. He ne- corms gradually. used to its very strongest moments, • and the never no- tices the strange odbrse that bother other people so much,. All he notices is that it smokes well - Perhaps after smoking for a while a pipe just naturally becomes molded in line with a man. He gets used to the feel of it in his ,hand, and the feel of the stem between hie teeth. 'ilhat ptfae just naturally fits in with his happy spells and his thinking spells . and he fortes' the same attachment for it that the forms fo•r an old hat. Now a woman couldn't be expected to realize such a thing as that, so that you can't blame a woman or wanting to sfee her husband with a bright shinty pipe that looks well. What lit tastes like and bow it smokes ' makee no difference to her. -So I just proceed along a carefully thought-out plan and endure tale burnt varnish taste of a new pipe un- til the right icepportunity Domes along and after breaking it, there's no trick at all to slip back to smoking the old one. :JUST A SMILE OR TWO: A fashionably dressed woman ap- proached the flower -seller and asked for a shilling's worth of blooms. Af- ter the purchase she inquired: "Will you be here next Wednesday, as I shall want some flowers for my daugthter? She's coming out that day." "She shall have the best on the market, ma'am," the woman answer- ed. What's she in for?" • "Is you boss in ooafereuoe?" "No, it's too wet for golf." • "So you remember away back to the Revolution, do you?" asked a gentleman of an old Negro. "Yassath — de Revolution an' Ging Washington an' ail dem. Sure do:" "Perhaps you were a witness to the fall of Rome." "No, sale Ab didn't see it, but Ah recollec' hearin•' somethin' drop!" • He arrived home to find his young wife weeping -bitterly. "What's the trouble, my dear?" he asked. • "Boo -hoe," she wept, "bhe cooked ,meat shop is moving from the corn- er." "Never meed," he said gently, "we can move too, you know!" "That's a fine girl you've married," said the Old Friend. • Two teams were contesting an im- portant Cup -tie. Play was vigorous and excitement ran high. Alining the home club's extreme partisans was a St. Jbth.n Ambulance man. He got into a heated argument with a supporter of the visiting team anti sto far forgot himself as to shake his fist in the other's face. Immediately thsere came a voice +from the crowd: "01, chum, you !mustn't do that. You're 'ere to pick 'em up, not knock 'em down!" • "Did you cancel all my engage- ments, as I told you, Smithers?" "Yes, sir, but Lady Millicent didn't take it very well. She eaid you were to manly her next Monday!" _ "You didn't carry out your plans eo :!elope?" "No. I found father was planning to ,move, and I dddlnat know where OBER 2 1939, A Fact A 'eek *out Canada . '(From the, Dui'+au sf. FLEMING GAVE US STANDARD • TIME Sir Samdlord Fleming, one One chief engineer for ,the Dominion Gov- im:i nent, gave the world the time t ,measurement system which we know as Standard Time. Stir Sandford Fleming was a native of the Fifeshire town, of Kirkcaldy, in Scotland. In 1845, at the age of 18, he came to Canada, joining in the rush of Scots to thin country a- bout that time, a rush that included a number of men. who achieved prom- inence iiv the building of the nation. ' He became a railroad construction engineer, made rapid progress in !lis profession and at Confederation, in 1867, when he was forty years of age, he was appointed chief engineer for the new Canadian Government. The difficulty of meastrrinfg time upon than broad continent, the ineon- vendeences experienced wait railroad 'and - telegraph communications, de— termined him to find a solution. The - system of .measuring time Isom noon- day when the sun was directly over- head was in vogue in Canada, the United States and Europe, but syo,me- thing more definite and certain had to be evolved. Sir Sandford conceiv— ed it, and presented histheory to- the othe world at a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute ,held at Toronto: in 1878. His theory was that time measure- ment easurement should be by menidianis fifteen: degrees apart in longitude and: oov- ! Bring The entire continent. It took some time, of course, to convince the conservative elementsin' Canada that `his proposal was sound, and it took still:longer to bring Washington and London to iris way of thinking, but the succeeded in winning to his vide two eminent rulers, King Humbert I of Italy, and Czar Alexander II of Russia. Russia with its vast expanse• of country eastward had problems: similar to the Canadian difficulties.. These two sovereigns sent out •in. 1879 invitations to a world confer- ence on the subject to he held is Rome in 1882. Before the conference the Czar had been assassinated and the gathering at Rome adjourned' tomeet in Wash- ington the foLlewing year. The Washi'ngto'n conference adopt- ed the Sandford Fleming proposal tcs standardize time by meridians and ia to very few years it came into being in every leading comitny of the world. It was all so very easy when ex- plained. There are 24 hours in a day.and the circle of the earth is 360, degrees. Divide the degrees by hours and yon get zones sof 15 degrees each_ Thatgives 24 Standard' Time zones with a difference of one hour in each.. The prime or zero meridians was ev-• entually decided upon as Greenwich. Sir Sandford Fleming died at Hali- fax in 1915. He was busy and pro- greseive to the end of this days in his• 88th year. Seen in the County Papers Severely Injured we'd find 'him when) we got back!" Traffic 'Officer John W. Callander., • who patrols No. '8 highway, Mitchell suffer: - Toastmaster: "What is the bard est to Goderich, reported to have suffer - est part of.,yobr work as a lecturer?" Lecturer: "As a rule, the hadest part of my work is waking up the audience after the man who intro- duces, me has concluded his remarks." • • THE REGULAR MR. CLARK (By J. Boyd -Thomas) • We had just been, iwtroducec�. Glancing at bis card, 1 read the name of a familiar street in my home town. The number of the house was within a few yards of the theme of a very good friend: of mine. "Do you happen es know Mr. Clerk?" I asked my new acquaint- ance. "Why, yes; do you?" "1 certainly do," I replied. "That's interesting," he said, warm- ing up. "Only the other day, my young daughter was talking to' ns about IMr_ Clark and I asked .her which Mr-. Clark she had in mind, reminding her that there are several of therm on the street — brothers, ntephews and cousins. To which she rept led: I mean the REGULAR Mr. Clark." And that wai that! -V�iilrs,etsti cermalleted, snyt thoughts turned the direction of that home and more rally to the man who thud been designated by the little girl as "regular:" )t• wondered, for the moment, what one does or says of inssportance to be ee regarded by a neighbor's child. I" came to the fol- lowing conclusions: My friend, the "regular Mr. Clark" has lived in the same house for many years. Ile and his family are re- spected by all who have known them :for a long time. He is a hard-work- ing man w!ho, with hist wife, has struggled hard and long to make a "go" of thantgs in the face of severe testing and', at times, real adversity. But the neighbors do riot know all their business, They de not wear .their hearts on their sleeves. And yet there must be something abent this "regular" follow that impresses a •child. and cassias her to refer to him, an this unique language. It #s my. opinion that just as chil- dren learn the ordiinarg everyday �tliiags by example, observation, repe- tition and hearsay, so this child must shave gained valuable information con- cerning the kind of man who lives just a few doors from her father's house. Added' to what sae doubtless bad heard people say, there is her intuition which, when, it comes to sizing up our neighbors, plays an im- pontant part in appraising the life of the community. It takes a child to blurt out the truth which, at ti .°} ea may, or mray nut be, the most pleas- an•t thing to hear. I am in a position to know that this particulap "regular" fellow is fair lust in his business dealings. That, 1s the kind of reputation which neighbors are not slow to dis- cover. .IE is also within the bounds of possibility that the young people of tbe neighborhood have diecussed their respective parents and, without di•sloyalby 'rave compared notes on the mehtods of discipline or latitude in tiheir several homes. Again, I bappen to know. that my friend to fair and just is his deal- ings, with his family. It is my priv- iifege sometimes to visit him in his home and I could' relate many inci- dents to dlluetrate my point ,No won- der 'that his family think and act as, if they -had tine best father in the world. Somehow or other, I cannot help feeling that the "regular Mr. Clark," as the little girl called; him, is typi- cal of many lathers who, at the pres- ent time, are carrying on bravely and uncom�slainingly in the face of ter- rific odds. So much of the World's work is done by big-hearted, self- sacrificing fathers and citizens. In the light of all that has recently transpired to shake or strengthen our faith In democracy, one may well venture to ask:, Has it been wortb- while? What will the young people of the next genreration� say? One wonders. ed a broken arm in a fall from his motorcycle in Toronto last week, is still in :hospital in that city with in- juries more serious than at first re- ported. Fellow -officers who have vis- ited his bedside bring 'back the mews that Mr. Callander complains more of a severely wieached back and twist- ed arm (the arm that was not brok- en) than be d'ces of the fracture. He will be off duty most of tie winter_ TrafficCfficon E. A. Webb is, doing his work for the present,—Goderrtob Signal -Star. Forever Bank Manager Dies Flight Lieut. Hartley S. Ivey, of Ottawa, passed away last week after an illness due to a strolrle suffered while be was in England in 1937 when he attended the Coronation. He was: 46 years of age and for many years previous to bis joining the R.C.A.F_ in 1926, was manager of the Bank of Commerce in Auburn. Besides hie wife an•d mother, he is survived: -by two daughters, Evelyn and Betty, at home.—Blyth Standard. Fresh Strawberries For Supper Mr. Elmer Pollard reports that he, picked enough fresh strawberries off' his garden to supply a dish apiece for five for ani'^per on Tuesday evening_ The strawberries were of choice qual- ity and very much enjoyed- — Blytta Standard, Baptismal Service Special' Thanksgiving services were-' held in James* Street United Church on Sunday. Sacramental service and: the rite of baptism was observed at the morning s,ervice. Six children were presented for baptism, viz: Ruby Jean, daughter of Mr. and Mrs_ Prank Parsons; William George, sou of Mr. and Mena,, Harvey Pollen; Hel- en Isabelle, daughter of Mr. and Mrs_ Clarence Down; William John, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Rowe; Janice Marlene, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Hamilton; Paul Douglas, son of Mn ,and Mrs. Harry Goalies. Mr. Ted Buswell . sang a solo. — Exeter TatilestAdvocate. Scholarship Winners At the monthly meeting of the Col- legiate Institute Board, held on Fri- day afternoon last, winners of schol- earshipe were reported as follows:— "V'+eterane' nn+einordal sclsolarslhip—lst, . Eleanor MacEwen; 2nd, Margaret - Peter Adamson seholarshdp--- (Oontinned on Page It) .. ;nee! >4 1